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tt0359013 | Blade: Trinity | NOTE: Sequel to Blade II (2002).Prologue: Four fully-covered vampires walk into a stone ziggurat in the Syrian Desert of Iraq. They are looking to re-awaken Dracula. They find him. Only three vampires walk out.Six months later. Blade (Wesley Snipes) has slipped up. After killing 1,182 human familiars and countless vamp... | good versus evil, violence, comedy, gothic | train | imdb | null |
tt0401855 | Underworld: Evolution | NOTE: Sequel to Underworld (2003).Underworld: Evolution opens with Vampire Selene (Kate Beckinsale) recapping the events in Underworld. Selene is a Hungarian Vampire who had been a Death Dealer for the Vampire clan throughtout Europe for 600 years when she was betrayed. She explains how Kraven (Shane Brolly), the ruler... | cult, action, gothic, violence, flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt0041386 | The Fountainhead | Howard Roark (Gary Cooper) has just left university. He is told off by the dean (Paul Stanton), as he does not want to know anything about history or how buildings were built in the past; he is only interested in the modern possibilities of building. That forces the dean to take the matter on his own hands and expel hi... | philosophical | train | imdb | null |
tt0017136 | Metropolis | In the futuristic year of 2026, in the city of Metropolis, wealthy industrialists reign from high-rise tower complexes, while underground-dwelling workers toil to operate the underground machines that power the city. Joh Fredersen is the city's master. His son Freder idles away his time in a pleasure garden, but is int... | good versus evil, cult, psychedelic, murder, sci-fi | train | wikipedia | Of course, the real strength of Metropolis isn't the story, which is pretty silly and probably wouldn't have worked in anything but a silent film, but its amazing visuals, which in their scale and ambitiousness look forward to 2001 and Blade Runner.
In addition to being a pioneering example of the cinematic possibiliti... |
tt0061573 | Dinamite Jim | Dynamite Jim starts off with a fun opening credits photo montage of characters from the film. It tends to center on the sexy female cast members of Rosalba Neri & Maria Pia Conte.The film starts with Civil War union soldiers purchasing a shipment of gold from a Mexican banker. This banker is, of course, unethical and h... | violence | train | imdb | Paella/Spaghetti/Butifarra Western co-produced by Spain/Italy , being professionally directed by Alfonso Balcazar. The film begins with Civil War union soldiers purchasing a shipment of gold from an astute Mexican banker in exchange of a lot of money . This crafty banker hires a bunch of bandits headed by Slate (Aldo S... |
tt0056626 | Two for the Seesaw | As the story opens, Jerry Ryan (Robert Mitchum) walking alone in lower Manhattan. Ryan was a lawyer in Lincoln, Nebraska, working in the law firm of his wife's father. No kids. After twelve years, she wants a divorce. Ryan leaves Lincoln while the divorce is pending and goes to New York to find himself. He is alone, li... | melodrama | train | imdb | Robert Mitchum and Shirley MacLaine are well-cast in this engaging love story set in NYC and shot in gritty, atmospheric black and white.
Mitchum's wonderfully-modulated performance as a middle-aged lawyer on the rebound, and MacLaine's as the effervescent young dancer he becomes involved with, mesh very appealingly.
I... |
tt0246460 | Die Another Day | In the pre-title sequence, James Bond and his two South Korean allies infiltrate a North Korean military base belonging to Colonel Tan-Sun Moon, an army officer who is illegally selling weaponry in exchange for African conflict diamonds. Bond poses as a weapons dealer named Mr. Van Bierk, rigging his briefcase of diamo... | suspenseful, murder | train | imdb | Creating new, exciting adventures for 007 after 20 feature films in forty years is a difficult task at best, particularly as public tastes change, and the character of James Bond has to maintain at least a degree of the 'persona' created by Ian Fleming.
Wilson, have done a remarkable job in keeping the series 'fresh', ... |
tt0175526 | Cherry Falls | In the woods outside of Cherry Falls, Virginia, a teenage couple, Rod Harper (Jesse Bradford) and Stacy Twelfmann (Bre Blair) are getting romantic in a car when a black-haired female appears and murders them both. Meanwhile, in town, teenager Jody Marken (Brittany Murphy), the daughter of the local sheriff, is with her... | revenge, murder, violence, flashback | train | wikipedia | It suffered several cuts to attain an R-Rating losing most of its planned edginess.The story is set in the small town of Cherry Falls, where suddenly, a mysterious figure begins to kill the virgins in town.
Sheriff Brent Marken (Michael Biehn) is specially concerned about the case not only because he knows that his bel... |
tt0112819 | Dead Presidents | (this first appeared on www.realmoviereview.com)
This action drama was the second film by the movie-making twins, Albert and Allen Hughes. The two started their careers with the urban drama, Menace II Society, and this effort has a 70s urban setting. The style and skill of these talented filmmakers is immediately appar... | comedy, avant garde, neo noir, murder, anti war, cult, violence, insanity, revenge, blaxploitation | train | imdb | null |
tt0217142 | A Warning to the Curious | The story is written in the typical Jamesian style and uses a multi layered narrative device to tell the tale. Time is taken to describe a pleasant traditional Victorian holiday resort, Seaburgh. The narrator states that he collects stories about the area as a result of his happy memories there as a child and that this... | murder | train | wikipedia | This excellent lesson in 'less is more' tells the story of an archeologist who attempts to unearth an ancient Saxon crown but gets more than he bargains for.The setting is Seaburgh, on the Norfolk broads near the coast.
As the character Dr. Black puts it: 'You can't tell where the beach ends and the sea begins.'10 out ... |
tt0021815 | Drácula | On Walpurgisnacht, Renfield [Pablo Álvarez Rubio] goes to Borgo Pass where he is met by Drácula's coach. The next day, Renfield and Drácula [Carlos Villarías] take 'the Vesta' to England. Ship arrives in Whitby harbor in a storm, captain lashed to boat, everyone dead, Renfield mad. Renfield is taken to Dr. Seward's [Jo... | insanity, cult | train | imdb | null |
tt0049646 | The Quatermass Xperiment | The British Rocket Group, headed by the taciturn Professor Bernard Quatermass, launches its first manned rocket into space. Shortly thereafter, all contact is lost with the rocket and its three crew: Carroon, Reichenheim, and Green. The large rocket later returns to earth, crashing into an English country field. Quater... | suspenseful, murder | train | wikipedia | Two of the crew members are missing, but the survivor, Victor Carroon (RICHARD WORDSWORTH) is slowly being taken over by an alien fungus that feeds on the blood of animals and human-beings.In a bid to win audiences away from their TV sets (something that was a real threat to cinemas at the time), Hammer elected to film... |
tt0037644 | Dillinger | DILLINGERNewsreels are being shown to an audience in a theater. At the end of the film, a master of ceremonies introduces to the crowd the person you have been wanting to see. An older man of countrified appearance and manner introduces himself as the father of John Dillinger. He says that John had a normal childhood a... | revenge, murder, violence, flashback | train | imdb | Also, Lawrence Tierney was made for gangster/film noir movies.
Dillinger eventually takes over the gang leading them into increasingly dangerous jobs risking capture and death.One of the many filmed versions of this gangster's life and death.
The story is stripped down to key moments and events in Dillinger's life as t... |
tt0120915 | Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace | The opening crawl reveals that the Trade Federation, led by its Viceroy Nute Gunray, has blockaded the planet of Naboo in hope of resolving a galactic trade dispute. Chancellor Valorum (Terence Stamp) of the Galactic Republic, sends Jedi Knights Qui-Gon Jinn (Liam Neeson) and his apprentice Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGrego... | good versus evil, cult, fantasy, action, boring | train | imdb | Qui-Gon believed in Anakin from the first second and believed in him to the end; most likely he understood the suffering and upheavals that promised further training of the boy for the Galaxy and for himself, but in one thing he was certain that in the final analysis Skywalker would return the Force to equilibrium ...F... |
tt0043315 | Ballot Box Bunny | Yosemite Sam runs for mayor of a small town, and in his campaign speech, he makes several empty promises like "There's enough fresh air and sunshine in this great country of ours for everybody - and I'll see to it that you'll get your share!" As the speech continues, we see that Bugs Bunny is drinking carrot juice bene... | psychedelic | train | imdb | null |
tt0082966 | Quella villa accanto al cimitero | A young woman (Daniela Doria) in an old abandoned house is looking for her boyfriend Steven who has taken her there for sex. The young woman discovers her boyfriend's horribly mutilated dead body when she gets stabbed through the back of her head with a sharp kitchen knife by an unseen person. The killer drags the woma... | cruelty, grindhouse film, murder, cult, violence, horror, flashback, insanity, sadist | train | imdb | "The House by the Cemetery", is a sinister horror movie by Lucio Fulci.
I think we ought to accept by now that several Italian horror movies, let alone the ones directed by Mr. Fulci, are not exactly to be praised because of their plot and exceedingly appropriate logic.
The high point in "The House by the Cemetery", al... |
tt0308152 | Dead End | On his way to Christmas dinner at his mother-in-law's, Frank Harrington (Ray Wise), driving on an unknown road with his family, falls asleep and almost crashes into another car going in the other direction. Miraculously nobody is hurt and the other car is nowhere to be seen. Back on the road, Frank sees a woman in whit... | mystery, comedy, horror, stupid | train | imdb | null |
tt1235166 | Un prophète | Malik El Djebena, a 19-year-old French youth of Algerian descent, is sentenced to six years in prison for attacking police officers. Alone and illiterate upon his arrival, he falls under the sway of Corsican mobsters, led by César Luciani, who enforces a brutal rule.
The prison is divided between two main factions: the... | psychological, realism, murder, violence, flashback, revenge | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1430132 | The Wolverine | On 9 August 1945, in a WWII prison camp near Nagasaki, Japan, from a guard tower, a young Japanese officer Yashida (Ken Yamamura) watches a pair of B-29 bombers appear over tranquil Nagasaki. Air Raid alarms sound; Yashida sounds an alarm and hurriedly descends from his watchtower at the POW camp. While other Japanese ... | suspenseful, murder, violence, flashback, good versus evil, humor, revenge | train | imdb | Hugh Jackman still was, and always will be, a brilliant Wolverine, but the other characters felt lackluster, the villain was weak and the storyline didn't fit well with the other X-Men movies.
It didn't have the same feel.For some time it seemed that the poor critical performances of both that and X-Men 3 would mean th... |
tt0450188 | La môme | As a small child, Edith Piaf is crying on a stoop, near some other children on the streets of Paris. Her mother stands across the alley singing, panhandling for change. Edith's mother writes a letter to her child's father, the contortionist, who is in the trenches of World War 1. She explains that she's dropping Edith ... | sentimental, murder, historical, flashback | train | imdb | It is difficult to overstate the necessary calibre of a woman who was raised in a filthy whorehouse, sung and slept on the street, travelled with the circus, lost her child at 20, went blind for a time, was wrongly accused of murder, struggled with a drug addiction and lost other loved ones by the bucketload in her lif... |
tt0237934 | The Wyvern Mystery | The story opens with the child Alice, newly orphaned and taken under the wing of Squire Fairfield unaware that he is the man responsible for her father's death. As she grows up to be a beautiful woman, Squire lusts after her and desires her to be his bride, but she is attracted to his older son, Charles. No sooner does... | insanity, revenge, gothic, murder, plot twist | train | imdb | Gothic goosebumps. She's young, she's blonde, she's beautiful, she's embroiled in the kind of eerieness only an English manor with a grim, tight-lipped housemistress and a deep, dark secret can muster. If you want romance, mystery, twisted plots and equally twisted people--not to mention one of the best reasons ever fi... |
tt0091326 | The Karate Kid Part II | The opening of the story recaps events from the end of the previous film: Daniel LaRusso squares off against Johnny in the final match of the All-Valley Karate Tournament and wins the match and the tournament when he plants his mentor's, Mr. Miyagi's, signature move, a "crane kick" to Johnny's chin. Following the match... | dramatic, revenge, inspiring, violence | train | imdb | As a huge fan of the Karate Kid trilogy, you'll have to excuse me while I give my first sentimental statement ever on IMDb. I believe in my heart that in that parallel universe where our favorite characters from film still live, that Kumiko and Daniel would be together today.
Both teacher and student are forced to stan... |
tt0103074 | Thelma & Louise | As the film opens, we meet Louise (Susan Sarandon), a waitress in a diner-style restaurant. She phones her friend Thelma (Geena Davis) and makes reference to a vacation they are about to take together where they will retreat to a friend's rural cabin for the weekend. Thelma is married to a moronic hothead named Darryl ... | murder, dramatic, cult, violence, action, tragedy | train | imdb | As bold and relevant as ever, it remains a vastly entertaining must-see.Callie Khouri's screenplay is a feeling, funny classic and director Ridley Scott lends this road movie epic scope, seeking out the beauty in open spaces.Both leads - Geena Davis as Thelma and Susan Sarandon as Louise - give fine performances.
Direc... |
tt0377062 | Flight of the Phoenix | Flight of the Phoenix is a remake of the 1965 film The Flight of the Phoenix starring James Stewart. Captain Frank Towns (Dennis Quaid) pilots a C-119 cargo plane full of oil workers who are returning home after shutting down an oil field in Mongolia's Gobi Desert. The plane is overloaded on take off, and soon they hit... | murder | train | imdb | This version has new actors filling the shoes of established characters, and yet none have the quality to hold the story on course, causing it to crash like their airplane.
Dennis Quaid assumes the role, originally filled by Jimmy Stewart, of the pilot who, against all odds, endeavors to lead his passengers to safety.A... |
tt0906108 | Why Did I Get Married? | Four couples, who are also best friends, converge on a house in the mountains for a week-long retreat that has become their ritual of sorts to help work out their marital problems and ask the question "Why did I get married?". Though the couples have committed to being physically present for the week, some of them have... | cruelty | train | imdb | Like other reviewers of this movie, I can't believe the low ratings that some people gave it.
My Hubby (of 30+ years) is out-of-town, and because we have only sons, I get out-voted a lot and thus don't get to see many "chick flicks." I discovered that this film is neither a "chick flick" nor a "black flick." It is a co... |
tt0297284 | Mindhunters | The titular Mindhunters are a group of young FBI students who are undergoing training as profilers. Their instructor, experienced profiler Jake Harris (Val Kilmer), employs a highly realistic training approach by assigning the group variants of real investigations, including elaborate sets, props, and FBI actors to pla... | entertaining, violence, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | It's still entertaining.I agree that they could have used the cast differently and that some of the plot points are quite unbelievable but on the whole it doesn't distract from the tension and the setting of the movie.The profilers sometimes act pretty stupid and out of character but the actors do a very decent job por... |
tt0098546 | UHF | George Newman ("Weird Al" Yankovic) is a daydreamer whose hyperactive imagination keeps him from holding a steady job. The opening sequence is one of George's daydreams as a spoof of the opening scene of 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' with George as Indiana Jones venturing to a temple to steal a gold Academy Award statue an... | absurd, cult, psychedelic, satire | train | imdb | This is probably, by far, the only movie I've seen that really makes me laugh more and more every time I see it.
So many great scenes, so many awesome quotes, and best of all, a chance for Weird Al Yankovic to show off his talents, both as an actor and as a singer.
Also, it's so much fun to see if you can pinpoint all ... |
tt0362227 | The Terminal | Viktor Navorski (Tom Hanks) arrives at JFK International Airport, but finds that he is not allowed to enter the United States. While he was en route to the US, a revolution was started in his home nation of Krakozhia. Due to the civil war, the United States no longer recognizes Krakozhia as a sovereign nation and denie... | comedy, boring, dramatic, psychedelic, humor, romantic, entertaining | train | imdb | Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg, two of the biggest names in Hollywood, two people who could literally make any film they wanted to, and instead they settle on a feel-good dramedy...
It's funny how Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks, two of Hollywood's most powerful men, who could literally do any movie they want, end up ma... |
tt1939659 | Carrie | In the opening scene, set in the year 1995, there is the White household where we hear Margaret White (Julianne Moore) screaming in pain. The shot pans the upstairs floor where Margaret is crying out to God in agony. We see a puddle of water that has splattered a Bible and numerous droplets of blood. Margaret is writhi... | suspenseful, cruelty, murder, violence, psychedelic, revenge | train | imdb | null |
tt0107614 | Mrs. Doubtfire | Daniel Hillard (Robin Williams) is a cartoon voice actor in San Francisco who quits his job at a local TV studio after a dispute with the director. As a father, Daniel is extremely passionate about his 3 children: 14-year-old Lydia, 12-year-old Chris, and 5-year-old Natalie. However his wife, Miranda (Sally Field), is ... | comedy, bleak, dramatic, cult, suspenseful, entertaining | train | wikipedia | This movie has plenty of gags, but it all comes together in a nice, friendly framework that centres around one man's family and that man's love for his children that'll make him dress up as a 60 year old granny to get back into their lives!
First,performance of the voice of Robin Williams is very wonderful.For example,... |
tt0963194 | Repo! The Genetic Opera | The film opens with a series of comic-book panels that explain how an epidemic of organ failures devastated the planet in the future ("Depraved Heart Murder at Sanitarium Square"). Out of the tragedy, GeneCo, a multi-billion dollar biotech company, emerged. GeneCo provides organ transplantation for profits. In addition... | dark, cruelty, gothic, murder, cult, violence, flashback, insanity, sadist | train | imdb | null |
tt2872718 | Nightcrawler | It's late at night in the city of Los Angeles. Louis Bloom (Jake Gyllenhaal) has broken into a train yard to try and break off a chain link fence. An officer approaches him and demands to see some ID. Lou keeps his cool and shows it to him, and then he attacks the man and kills him. Lou later takes the broken up fence ... | dark, mystery, neo noir, murder, violence, satire | train | imdb | Nightcrawler throws you right into the gritty streets along with a hustling thief, Lou, who starts freelancing as a videographer of crime scenes and selling his footage to a news channel for money.
Also Gyllenhaal's chemistry with Rene Russo (the news director) is palatable and their work dynamic becomes more of a grip... |
tt1726669 | Killer Joe | The film opens with drug dealer Chris Smith arriving at a trailer on a late rainy night. He pounds on the door until Sharla, his step mom, answers. Chris is there to see his father Ansel. Sharla and Chris argue and there is a small physical confrontation. Then Ansel and Chris get into it. Dottie, Chris' young sister, l... | comedy, neo noir, cruelty, murder, violence, storytelling | train | imdb | The story revolves around a trailer trash family and their plan to exploit an insurance policy on the husband's ex-wife because the son got wrapped up in a bad drug deal, so they hire Killer Joe to do the job.
They all have such subtle personalities, it seems as though they are playing themselves.As for the plot, it is... |
tt0480025 | This Is England | In 1983, 12-year-old Shaun gets into a fight at school with a boy named Harvey after he makes an offensive joke about his father, who died in the Falklands War. On his way home, Shaun comes across a gang of young skinheads led by Woody, who feels sympathy for Shaun and invites him to join the group. They accept Shaun a... | murder, realism, violence, atmospheric, brainwashing, suspenseful, storytelling | train | wikipedia | And coming from a director who used to be part of the real scene, it might be the most authentic picture about skinheads ever made.Although it didn't get as much attention as the Hollywood films that had their premiere at the Berlinale Palast, it's a lot stronger than almost all the films in competition.I hope it will ... |
tt0057443 | La ragazza che sapeva troppo | Nora Davis (Leticia Roman) is a young, sexually frustrated American woman who journeys to Rome, Italy to visit her elderly Aunt Edith. On the flight from New York to Rome, Nora is befriended by a young man sitting next to her on the plane who offers her a cigarette, and she accepts. He gives her his pack as a token of ... | insanity, murder | train | imdb | THE GIRL WHO KNEW TOO MUCH (Mario Bava - Italy 1962).I finally got to watch this in the way of the relatively cheap French DVD-release LA FILLE QUI EN SAVANT TROP, which includes Bava's original Italian cut as well as the American cut (titled THE EVIL EYE), which has a completely different ending and excludes some refe... |
tt0093011 | Fatal Beauty | Detective Rita Rizzoli (Whoopi Goldberg) an undercover narcotics police officer,stages an undercover buy with drug dealer Tito Delgadillo. During the bust she sees her friend and informant Charlene being dragged out of the bar by her pimp and runs to her aid, thus alerting Delgadillo of her being an undercover cop. Aft... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0037365 | The Thin Man Goes Home | Nick and Nora visit Nick's parents (Lucile Watson and Harry Davenport) in Nick's hometown, Sycamore Springs, in New England. The residents are convinced that Nick is in town on an investigation, despite Nick's repeated denials. However, when aircraft factory employee Peter Berton (Ralph Brooks) seeks out Nick and is sh... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0069738 | The Asphyx | Two police officers run to the location of a car crash. The lethal accident threw two people through the windshields of each car, instantly killing the, but one of the people involved miracously survived. One of the police officers pulls one man out from under the car.Cut to title credits.19thC carriage and clothes. En... | insanity, gothic, flashback | train | imdb | This is one of those rare small movies which has a great plot, decent special effects (for the time), and good acting.
Nineteenth century , England , a mad doctor is studying death when he discovers the Asphyx , an obscure supernatural power , it is the key to immortality on the subject .
This eerie movie deals with a ... |
tt0068408 | Conquest of the Planet of the Apes | The opening titles set the film in "North America – 1991." Armando (Ricardo Montalbán) explains that in 1983 (ten years after the end of Escape from the Planet of the Apes, which was set two years ahead of its theatrical release date), a disease killed the world's cats and dogs, leaving humans with no pets. To replace ... | violence, suspenseful, alternate history, murder, sci-fi | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0905994 | The Haunting Hour: Don't Think About It | written by KrystelClaireA young boy, Max (Alex Winzenread), feels terrified: he can't sleep in his room because everything scares him, from the twigs tapping on the window to the door of his walk-in wardrobe. He constantly calls for his mum and dad, and consequently, they can't sleep at all. Finally, Dad/Jack Keller (J... | horror, gothic, prank | train | imdb | The cartoon network is not my normal source for Sunday night movies but when I saw the previews for this new movie based on the R.L. Stein book it reminded me of my days of reading Goosebumps and decided to give it a try.
I must say that I was pleasantly surprised as it was a fun movie with its share of spooky moments ... |
tt0337921 | Cellular | The film opens with Jessica Martin, a high school biology teacher, talking to her son Ricky, while escorting him to the school bus. After she returns home, mysterious assailants enter her home through the back door, kill her house maid, kidnap her and confine her in the attic of their safe house. Ethan, the gang leader... | mystery, murder, violence, action, claustrophobic, suspenseful | train | imdb | The best part about this movie is that you actually feel sympathy for the victims, the plot is probable, and the action scenes do not require that the actors possess superhuman strength.
A kidnapped woman (Kim Basinger) frantically dials a random number on a broken telephone, reaching the cellular phone of a young man ... |
tt3531824 | Nerve | Venus "Vee" Delmonico (Emma Roberts) is a high school senior living on Staten Island. She surfs the web and gets a Facebook notification from her crush, J.P. (Brian Marc), who tagged her in a photo that she took. Vee gets a Skype chat invitation from her friend Sydney (Emily Meade). Syd mentions a game called 'Nerve' t... | revenge, suspenseful, romantic | train | imdb | This movie comes at the perfect time with the craze of Pokemon Go; a time when you literally see millions of people obsessed with an app - where you can find videos of hordes of people in NYC all running after a particular Pokemon.This is essentially the premise of the movie: a new app (game) comes out that takes teens... |
tt0110823 | Phantasm III: Lord of the Dead | Immediately after his apparent demise at the end of Phantasm II, a new Tall Man emerges from the white room dimension fork. During this time, the hearse driving Liz and Mike carries on and explodes. Reggie, who was attacked by the Alchemy/Tall Man creature, rushes over and finds Liz dead and a dwarf devouring her face.... | good versus evil, paranormal, cult, comedy, violence | train | imdb | It also, like the second one, shows that the ending you THOUGHT you saw isn't exactly what happened...and somehow Reggie survived in order to keep fighting The Tall Man. However, Mike IS gone...and he only appears in the film as more of a guest star.
And let's not forget one of the creepiest screen villains in the last... |
tt0000417 | Le voyage dans la lune | At a meeting of the Astronomic Club, its president, Professor Barbenfouillis, proposes a trip to the Moon. After addressing some dissent, five other brave astronomers: Nostradamus, Alcofrisbas, Omega, Micromegas, and Parafaragaramus agree to the plan. They build a space capsule in the shape of a bullet, and a huge cann... | psychedelic, satire | train | imdb | Influenced by the works of Jules Verne and H.G. Wells, as well as Adolphe Dennery's adaptation of those pieces, the story is about a gang of astronomers, who, launched from a cannon onto the Moon, encounter explosive aliens (or "Selenites", as Méliès called them).Méliès used the stop-motion (or substitution-splice) eff... |
tt0055830 | Carnival of Souls | While out for a drive, three girlfriends get into a car race with two boys. As the car chase takes them down backroads, they come to a bridge. Trying to get across it, the girls car ends up crashing through the side and the car sinks into the water.Some time afterward, a search party is brought out, but after several h... | cult, psychedelic, atmospheric, gothic, haunting | train | imdb | null |
tt0107448 | Love Bites | Dwight Putnum [Roger Rose] has just asked Kendall Gordon [Kimberly Foster]
for the 10th time to marry him, but Kendall is still unwilling to commit. She has
this idea that the perfect man for her is still out there. Vampire Zachary Simms [Adam Ant]
has just awakened in his coffin from a 100 year sleep in the crypt unde... | adult comedy | train | imdb | Poor Ole Zachary.
I must say, as vampire movies go, this one is just adorable.
I have seen some comedy vampire movies, but this one just grabs you.
It took me years to find this movie on video for US video, the only ones I could find were for British video and every time it would come on TV would be about 2 in the morn... |
tt0448124 | Snow Cake | When the eccentric drifter Vivienne Freeman gets a ride from a reluctant recluse Alex Hughes (Alan Rickman), she is killed by a transport truck side ramming the car, while Alex only gets a nosebleed. Everybody agrees that it is not Alex's fault. He visits Vivienne's mother, Linda (Sigourney Weaver), to deliver Vivienne... | psychedelic, cute | train | wikipedia | This is the world of Linda Freeman, high-functioning autistic.There are two sides to Linda: the world she lives in is undoubtedly extraordinary - her version of Scrabble leaves Alan Rickman's character (Alex Hughes) looking severely unevolved - but it is balanced by her lack of empathy for 'normal' people.
What makes W... |
tt0124198 | Very Bad Things | Kyle Fisher (Jon Favreau), days away from his wedding, welcomes his bachelor party weekend as a chance to break free from his control-freak, Bridezilla fiancée Laura (Cameron Diaz). Along with his best friend Charles (Leland Orser), his friends Michael (Jeremy Piven), and Boyd (Christian Slater), and Michael's brother ... | violence, comedy, dark, murder | train | imdb | null |
tt2543164 | Arrival | The film starts with the voice of Dr. Louise Banks (Amy Adams) speaking to someone. We see moments of Louise with her daughter Hannah, from her birth, through her childhood years, up until her death at a young age from a fatal disease.Louise is a linguist and language professor. She begins her lecture to a small class ... | flashback | train | imdb | People trying to point out every possible flaw to look and sound smarter while at the same time hailing far worse movies.
Actually what you get is a film that approaches the grandeur of "Close Encounters" but interlaces it with the intellectual depth of "Inception", the mystery of "Intersteller" and a heavy emotional j... |
tt0070666 | Serpico | Frank Serpico (Al Pacino) covered in blood and slumped in the backseat of a police car as it races to a hospital with lights and sirens blaring. He has just been shot in the face. The rest of the movie tells the story of Serpico's career up to this moment, starting with him becoming a police officer in 1960. He is very... | dark, neo noir, violence, atmospheric, flashback, romantic | train | imdb | He acts with such charm and smoothness in some scenes, while explosive and intense in others.The movie gets into a big plot line about police corruption and Serpico blowing the whistle on the department.
It's scenes like those that make you sympathetic for him.Sidney Lumet and Pacino made a great team for this movie, a... |
tt0166843 | There's Always Vanilla | There's Always Vanilla follows the life of Chris Bradley (Raymond Laine) a former U.S. Army soldier who has become a drifter and makes money by various means, from pimping to guitar playing. Chris returns to his home city of Pittsburgh and visits his father who owns and operates a baby food factory. After an evening ou... | satire | train | wikipedia | I think this movie, Romero's follow-up to Night of the Living Dead, compares favorably to The Graduate.
Ray Laine is great as the lead in this movie.
I liked how Ray Laine's character addresses the camera giving the audience a insight into his life and times.
Romero's camera work, direction and editing are real good in... |
tt0456912 | Dalkomhan insaeng | Kim Sun-woo (Lee Byung-hun) is a high ranking mobster and enforcer for Kang (Kim Yeong-cheol), a cold and calculating crime boss to whom he is unquestionably loyal. The two share concerns over business tensions with Baek Dae-sik (Hwang Jung-min), a son from a rival family, which is when Kang assigns Sun-woo what is per... | revenge, violence | train | wikipedia | Not to mention the fact that it has the same sort of humor.Now, I am a film student who has actually gotten a lot of praise from students and teachers and whatnot for my first film project
That's great and all, but after seeing this film I am reminded of what Steven Spielberg said after he saw The Godfather; "I guess ... |
tt1290135 | Children of the Corn | In an attempt to save their failing marriage, Burt and Vicky, a bickering couple, are driving to California for vacation. As they drive through rural Nebraska, they accidentally run over a young boy who ran onto the road. Upon examination of the body, Burt discovers the boy's throat had been slit and he was bleeding to... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | The children aren't even in the least bit scary and the little boy who played Issac recites his lines like he's still trying to remember them.
Of all the Stephen King books and films, I find the movie Children of the Corn to be about the most interesting.
As a fan of horror movies, I think films with children as villai... |
tt0100114 | Marked for Death | Chicago DEA agent John Hatcher returns from Colombia, where drug dealers killed his partner Chico. As a result of Chico's death and years of dead end work, John retires and heads to his family's home in suburban Chicago. He visits the local school to meet his old friend and former U.S. Army buddy Max (Keith David) who ... | comedy, neo noir, murder, cult, violence, humor, revenge | train | wikipedia | Marked for death is one of them.This film has loads of martial arts, Yardies, drugs, black magic, Drive by shootings, people dressed like Aswad, and the big black guy from platoon who escapes from the shootout at the end by getting rotated back to America.
Hatcher and Max soon run into a bunch of ruthless Jamaican drug... |
tt1220719 | Yip Man | This is the story of Ip Man, a legendary Wing Chun Kung Fu master from Fo Shan, China. The film is set in Japanese occupied Fo Shan following Japan's invasion of China during World War II. It recounts specifically one man's opposition the occupying Japanese forces.Ip Man is set in the 1930s in Foshan, a hub of Southern... | murder, violence, flashback, good versus evil, action, inspiring, sadist | train | imdb | Every Wing Chun instructor today tries to make a lineage connection to Yip Man to legitimize their teaching so he is a very important figure in Kung Fu. Donnie Yen portrays the master with intense reserve and is possibly the best acting in his career.
And thank goodness for Donnie Yen still being around to pick up from... |
tt0077578 | Foul Play | Gloria Mundy (Goldie Hawn) is attending a party in a town across the bay from San Francisco. From a conversation with a friend we learn that she is recently divorced and is shying away from dating men to avoid getting her heart broken again. Her friend urges her to become more social and for a few seconds she considers... | murder | train | imdb | null |
tt2140203 | Ookami kodomo no Ame to Yuki | Hana is enrolled in a university, while working part-time as a dry cleaner, and living a single life alone in her apartment. She saw a boy in her class writing down notes, but with no textbook, and whom she had never seen before in any classes. Wolf man was his name, and he never intended on meeting anyone, nor a girl ... | romantic, fantasy | train | imdb | It is a movie about love of all kinds, and while it is admittedly an idealized version of love, a story of the sort of unselfish, uncomplicated love that only exists consistently in movies, it is truly lovely.It is also often quite funny, well paced, and thoroughly entertaining.Having seen Mamoru Hosada's previous film... |
tt1626201 | Red: Werewolf Hunter | Virginia, modern-day descendant of Little Red Riding Hood, brings her fiancé, Nathan, home to meet her family. Virginia's brothers, Marcus (Greg Bryk) and Jake (David Reale), are quick to welcome Virginia back, fondly calling her "Red", a family nickname of the first daughter in every generation. After the arrival of b... | violence | train | wikipedia | I really do NOT understand why people insist on watching movies that they know are movie of the week, straight to DVD, cable flicks or in this case SyFy movies and then complain about the production value, or the low budget.Red: Werewolf Hunter IS a SyFy movie.
A terrific cast including Felicia Day, Kavan Smith, Greg B... |
tt0116414 | Girl 6 | In Manhattan, New York City, Judy, also known as Girl 6 (Theresa Randle), is at a very awkward audition with Quentin Tarantino. Judy seems to grin and bear it. Tarantino reveals that the film Judy is auditioning for is "the greatest romantic, African-American film ever made. Directed by me, of course." However, Judy gr... | pornographic | train | imdb | They (even the positive ones) completely enforce exactly what this movie is actively trying to point out about our society.Several people noted that the narrative was weak or nonexistent, that the film didn't "go" anywhere, and/or that there was too much extra "stuff" that distracted the story from the "real" plot line... |
tt2321549 | The Babadook | Amelia Vanek is a troubled and exhausted widow who has brought up her six-year-old son Samuel alone after her husband Oskar's death from a car accident that occurred as he drove Amelia to the hospital during her labour. Sam begins displaying erratic behaviour: he becomes an insomniac and is preoccupied with an imaginar... | dark, psychological, mystery, paranormal, allegory, atmospheric, entertaining | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0318462 | Diarios de motocicleta | In 1952, a semester before Ernesto "Fuser" Guevara is due to complete his medical degree, he and his older friend Alberto, a biochemist, leave Buenos Aires in order to travel across the South American continent in search of fun and adventures. While there is a goal at the end of their journey - they intend to work in a... | avant garde, murder, stupid, dramatic, inspiring, romantic | train | imdb | Gael Garcia Bernal is completely believable and very human in the role, and there's real chemistry between him and Rodrigo de la Serna (any relation?) who plays his friend Granado, leading to a lot of funny moments-important, as ther are many stretches of the movie where it is just them and the scenery.
This movie is b... |
tt1853728 | Django Unchained | In 1858, Django (Jamie Foxx), a slave, is chained to a bunch of other slaves and being marched to his new owner's estate in Texas by the Speck brothers. At nightfall, a German man in a dentist cart pulls up and hails the Speck brothers. He introduces himself as Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz).Schultz is clearly more... | suspenseful, murder, western, dramatic, sadist, violence, storytelling, flashback, historical fiction, humor, action, romantic, revenge, entertaining, blaxploitation | train | imdb | null |
tt0082910 | Piranha Part Two: The Spawning | Off the coast of a Caribbean island, a young couple flee the hotel in the middle of the night to have sex in the sea. But they swim into a sunken wreck which is also a piranha lair and they are both killed and eaten by the unseen piranha.The next day, a group of tourists, including Tyler Sherman (Steve Marachuk), are t... | horror, violence, mystery | train | imdb | After the opening scene which is similar to the one in Jaws 2, (except here the two divers are lovers trying for some underwater coupling), the film introduces a variety of characters, most of which are surprisingly endearing in a 'B' movie kind of way; particularly two topless good-time girls who get provisions from a... |
tt0366627 | The Jacket | The film opens with Adrien Brody as an active soldier in the Gulf War in 1991. His voiceover tells us he was 27 the first time he died. While on duty, a young boy ambushes him and he is shot in the head.We move forward a year and he is clearly a loner. We see him hitch-hiking along a snowy road. He encounters a broken-... | romantic, alternate history, murder | train | imdb | "The Jacket" has gotten some bad press because the plot has a lot of holes in it, but if you suspend belief and just enjoy the movie, it is a lot of fun.Any film that involves time travel requires that you suspend belief, and "The Jacket" is no different.
It's not quite such a headbanging puzzle as Mulholland Drive, an... |
tt0079082 | The Driller Killer | New York City. Reno Miller, a scruffy young artist, enters a small Catholic church in Spanish Harlem where he walks to the front where an elderly bearded man is kneeling and chanting "pity the sinners" over and over. Reno seems to recognize the man as his long-lost father, whom is now apparently a derelict. The old man... | cruelty, grindhouse film, murder, cult, horror, violence | train | imdb | This is probably best looked at in the context of Ferrara's other work, rather than in the context of the rest of the British video nasties list, because it is actually a surprisingly good film.
Along with Uli Lommel's little seen 'Blank Generation' there are very few other films that successfully document the mid 70s ... |
tt0096256 | They Live | George Nada (Roddy Piper) is a homeless laborer who arrives in Los Angeles looking for work. He listens for some seconds to some rambling street preacher (Raymond St. Jacques), but he dismisses his message and leaves when he notices that the police are coming. He eventually finds work on an L.A. construction site. One ... | murder, allegory, cult, violence, clever, good versus evil, psychedelic, humor, satire, action, brainwashing, suspenseful, sci-fi | train | imdb | But it is far more pervasive than just that._They_Live_ uses the invisible alien elite as a proxy for our suspicions about how we are all being exploited by the elite of our real-life society, and how these elite are subtly programming us to accept this exploitation.So, the major theme of the movie is not, as another p... |
tt1905042 | Standing Up | Two kids, Howie (Chandler Canterbury) and Grace (Annalise Basso), are stripped naked and left stranded together on an island as victims of a vicious summer camp prank. But rather than returning to camp to face the humiliation, they decide to take off on the run together. Grace does not know how to swim, so she holds on... | prank | train | wikipedia | It's a difficult task to make a film about bullying , especially in today's world , with news on the TV of children who takes their own life after having being bullied.Bullying is , unfortunately , still very much relevant , perhaps more now then ever before.Twitter,Facebooks and the likes are new weapons used by bulli... |
tt0246464 | Big Trouble | In a high-school game of Killer (in which a student must shoot another with a squirt gun) Matt Arnold has to "shoot" classmate Jenny Herk, and decides to sneak up on her at home. By coincidence hitmen are also there to kill Arthur Herk, who has secretly embezzled money from his company. When the fake assassination atte... | cult, comedy, violence, flashback | train | imdb | I guess it didn't help that BIG TROUBLE's originally-scheduled December 2001 release was delayed due to worries that a plot involving smuggling an A-bomb through laissez-faire airport security would seem more disturbing than funny after the horrific events of 9/11/2001.
Maybe most audiences are still too spooked right ... |
tt0974536 | Chemical Wedding | Jack Parsons was a brilliant chemist and inventor of the rocket fuel used for the US space flight to the moon. He was also a fanatical believer in the Magic of Aleister Crowley the aging occultist who considered himself 'The Beast' incarnate.In 1947 Jack Parsons and L. Ron Hubbard were performing Crowley's mystic ritua... | cult | train | imdb | If you have read anything by Crowley, the Satanic Bible, or Marquis de Sade, this movie will fall along those kind of lines and not upset you too much.
Most of the movie is about spouting Crowley's rhetoric, with a few deaths thrown in for good measure.
AKA: Chemical WeddingRating: 3 out of 5Genre: Horror, Science Fict... |
tt0395972 | North Country | Josey's life leaves much to be desired when we see her waiting by the Christmas tree with her pre-adolescent son and younger daughter, alone in the house. Her husband drives up. And we next see her lying on the floor bloody after hes beaten her. At that point, she wastes no time packing up her stuff into her pick up tr... | romantic, flashback | train | imdb | The sound effect and country-feel soundtrack are quite good too.Charlize Theron deserves all the recognition she got for giving a strong, confidant and heartfelt performance as the brave hard-working and headstrong Josey Aimes.
Though 'North Country' isn't without its share of flaws (it is a little preachy and sometime... |
tt1060249 | Drona | Drona is the compelling modern tale of one man's spectacular voyage through the labyrinths of mystic myths and legendary legacies. As good and evil clash in this contemporary fantasy fable, a breathtaking journey beckons you into a world of mythic heroes and malicious magicians, of cunning curses and absolute innocence... | good versus evil | train | imdb | Even the music is pain to the ears, the location crap, the computer graphics too fake, the costumes a shame to the Indian film industry and finally an acting worst than first time auditions..
Had I not been watching it with family and friends, I would have walked out.As I am talking to a director I am going to give you... |
tt0272790 | Princess of Thieves | The film picks up years after the "known" events of the Robin Hood legend, centering on Robin's daughter, Gwyn, played by Knightley. As Maid Marian has died and Robin Hood (Stuart Wilson) is perpetually away battling in the Crusades, Gwyn has lived much of her life alone. She has grown up to be a strong-willed young wo... | good versus evil, cult, action, murder | train | imdb | It's also great that they depict Gwyn and even the aging Robin as people who have a lot of spunk.
I thought the actors were all good, but I especially liked Stuart Wilson, who played Robin Hood.
He reminds me of Errol Flynn, who I thought played that part best in THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD, made by MGM in 1938.
The a... |
tt0113347 | How to Make an American Quilt | In the present day 26 year old history graduate student Finn contemplates marriage. She decides to return to Grasse, California for the summer where eight members of a quilting group, some of whom she is related to, are sewing a free-form crazy quilt for her wedding.
=== The Flower Girls ===
Sisters Glady Joe and Hy (s... | romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | When Berkeley graduate student Finn decides to spend some time away from her live-in boyfriend, and moves in with her grandmother and great aunt for the summer, while finishing her master's thesis, she gets an important and heart-warming lesson about love and commitment.
Finn's grandmother and great aunt are members of... |
tt1103153 | Killers | After a break-up with a spontaneous boyfriend, an overly cautious Jennifer "Jen" Kornfeldt (Katherine Heigl) travels to Nice with her parents (Tom Selleck and Catherine O'Hara). While going into an elevator to go to her hotel room, she meets Spencer Aimes (Ashton Kutcher). Spencer asks her to dinner and she accepts. Th... | boring, murder, flashback | train | imdb | Little did Jen know though, that three years later, the ghosts of Spencer's old job will come and wreak havoc on their seemingly perfect suburban life.This is the first movie of Katherine Heigl that I have seen.
Let's start of with saying that Robert Luketic knows how to direct, the pace in the movie is good, he never ... |
tt0119517 | Your Friends & Neighbors | Set in an unnamed American city, two urban, middle-class couples deal with their unhappy relationships by shamelessly lying and cheating in their quest for happiness. Jerry (Stiller), is a theater instructor who is married to Terri (Keener), a writer who is alienated and unfulfilled with his love-making skills. Jerry a... | comedy, cruelty, satire | train | wikipedia | "Your Friends and Neighbors" (1998) is the second film by director/writer Neil LaBute and it tells the story of three couples and their complicated friendships and relationships.
I've seen it more than once during the last couple of days - and I found it incredibly clever written, well acted (especially by Jason Patric... |
tt0118589 | Glitter | In the nightclub scene of the 1970s New York City, a multiracial young girl, Billie, born to a Caucasian father and an African-American mother, is taken away from her alcoholic, lounge singer mother after she is deemed irresponsible to raise her and Billie's estranged father wants nothing to do with either one of them.... | cult, murder, sentimental | train | imdb | It's yet another rewrite of "A Star Is Born", here turned into a vehicle for pop star Mariah Carey and apparently patterned after her own rise to the top (audiences weren't fooled, however, by the updated, late-night-movie clichés).
Carey's funky/erotic music is driving (and her performance as blazing new talent Billie... |
tt0318081 | A Sound of Thunder | In Chicago, 2055, the Time Safari company offers the ability for people to hunt dinosaurs in the past via time travel technology. As a precaution against the potential change of the past, the company preys only on the dinosaurs who would otherwise die of natural causes and keeps the clients from stepping off the design... | alternate reality, stupid, boring, flashback | train | wikipedia | I disagree with the previous commenter -- I don't think the actors were walking on a treadmill in front of the green screen, I think they were just standing in place and shifting their weight from one foot to the other.Sir Ben Kingsley is clearly aware of the "quality" of this film and embraces the ridiculousness, havi... |
tt0039331 | Donald's Dilemma | As the film begins, Daisy Duck is talking to a psychiatrist about an incident that occurred with her boyfriend, Donald. She recalls how they were walking through the park, passing by a skyscraper. On the 99th floor of the skyscraper is a potted flower, which falls and hits Donald on the head, knocking him out. When he ... | suicidal | train | imdb | Donald and Daisy both shine!.
I do agree that the title is misleading, it is more Daisy's Dilemma than Donald's.
But when you see the quality of the cartoon, you can forgive this, because Donald's Dilemma is just wonderful.
It is a cartoon where both Donald and Daisy shine, Donald is not as temperamental as he is in ot... |
tt0067309 | Klute | The film begins with the disappearance of Pennsylvania executive Tom Gruneman (played by Robert Milli). The police reveal that an obscene letter was found in Gruneman's office, addressed to a prostitute in New York City named Bree Daniels (Fonda), who had received several similar letters from him. After six months of f... | murder, mystery, neo noir, storytelling, sadist | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0863136 | Peter & the Wolf | On the edge of the vast forests of Russia, where wolves still roam, lies a little cottage surrounded by a big, high fence. This is where Peter lives with his grumpy Grandfather. Grandfather will not let Peter go out into the forest. Peter has a friend, the lovable Duck, with whom he hangs around Grandfather's yard. A B... | revenge | train | imdb | null |
tt0256380 | Shallow Hal | Hal Larson (Jack Black) is a superficial man whose fixation on the physical beauty of women gets in the way of seeing their inner beauty. Hal and his equally shallow friend, Mauricio (Jason Alexander), spend their nights obnoxiously hitting on beautiful women at nightclubs. Hal's work life is steady, but he is dismayed... | brainwashing | train | wikipedia | And Jason Alexander is always a joy to watch.I think "Shallow Hal" does the best job at conveying the message that beauty is on the inside.
And the soundtrack is pretty good--I have criticized the Farrellys in the past for using crappy music in their sountracks.If you're looking for a good romantic/date movie with some... |
tt0316356 | Open Range | In Montana in 1882, "Boss" Spearman is an open range cattleman, who, with hired hands Charley, Mose, and Button, is driving a herd cross country. Charley is a former soldier who fought in the Civil War and feels guilty over his past as a killer.
Boss sends Mose to the nearby town of Harmonville for supplies. The town i... | atmospheric, revenge, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | A traditional, well-made western - suitable for most ages, features good guys herdin' cattle, bad guys tryin' to steal the cattle, codes of honour, a corrupt sheriff, a fantastic shoot-out, and Annette Bening being lovely in the wings.
Open Range is no high and mighty moraliser however; there are plenty true-to-genre o... |
tt0488658 | Unaccompanied Minors | When Katherine and Spencer are on there way to their fathers house, a blizzard hits delaying all plane flights
at Hoover International. Zach Van Bourke (Wilmer Valderrama)
takes Katherine and Spencer to the UM room (Unaccompanied Minors Room)
In the huge concrete room there are lots of crazy kids in there. That is wher... | comedy, flashback | train | imdb | Sure, there isn't some complex plot with several twists; it's just a relaxed ride, a feel good movie.
They are doing things that no adult could ever get away with, but that is exactly why it made me feel good: you just know that there won't be consequences; it's just pure adventure and fun.I see a lot of B-movies latel... |
tt0120616 | The Mummy | In Egypt, circa 1290 BC, high priest Imhotep engages in an affair with Anck-su-Namun, the mistress of Pharaoh Seti, despite strict rules that other men are forbidden to touch her. When the Pharaoh discovers their tryst, Imhotep and Anck-su-Namun murder the monarch. Imhotep is dragged away by his priests before the Phar... | horror, violence, action, boring, stupid | train | imdb | Now he is out to kill, regenerate and bring back his old lover - pretty neat, huh?I own "Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy," a great movie spoofing the classic film.
I actually believe that this film is a bit classy in execution - compared to many other entertainments floating around nowadays it stands as one of the o... |
tt0099582 | Flatliners | The movie opens with a shot of Nelson (Kiefer Sutherland), a medical student, saying, "Today is a good day to die." The movie then moves on to explain this statement as Nelson tries to convince Joe Hurley (William Baldwin), David Labraccio (Kevin Bacon), Randy Steckle (Oliver Platt), and Rachel Manus (Julia Roberts), f... | cruelty, alternate reality, haunting, flashback, psychedelic, revenge | train | imdb | It definitely is on my personal list of favorite movies, and for more than just starring Kiefer Sutherland and Kevin Bacon, two of my `actors to watch.'Perhaps I appreciate this film so much because it appeals to my slightly off-kilter taste in entertainment.
Some have complained about the murky lighting, and the illog... |
tt0162677 | Summer of Sam | Writer Jimmy Breslin begins narrating the film; telling the viewer about New Yorks current prosperity. However, things were not always this way, showing news articles from 1977 about the .44 Caliber Killer and explaining how the city was in a massive state of decay, explaining that there are 8 million stories in the na... | cult, murder, violence | train | imdb | null |
tt1401152 | Unknown | Martin Harris (Liam Neeson) and his wife, Liz (January Jones), arrive in Berlin for a biotechnology conference where he is to give a paper. When they arrive at their hotel, also the site of the conference, Martin realizes he left his briefcase with their passports at the airport. While Liz checks in, he takes a cab to ... | violence, action, murder, flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt1194263 | Get Low | Old man Felix lives alone in a cabin in the woods. One day after hearing about an old local who died, he hitches his mule to a wagon and rides into town. He goes to a church and presents a priest with a handful of money to plan his own funeral. The priest suggests that Felix needs to make peace with God first. Upset, F... | boring, depressing, dramatic, humor, romantic, entertaining, storytelling | train | imdb | null |
tt0110907 | Prêt-à-Porter | Paris, Fashion Week 1994: all kind of models, designers, reporters, fashion editors... join together to present next year's trends. Kitty Potter (Kim Basinger) is a reporter in search of big news.Sergio (Marcello Mastroianni) sends an identical Christian Dior tie to the president of the French Association of Fashion, O... | satire | train | imdb | null |
tt0115433 | 101 Dalmatians | American video game designer Roger Dearly (Jeff Daniels) lives with his pet dalmatian Pongo in London. One day, Pongo sets his eyes on a beautiful female dalmatian named Perdy. After a frantic chase through the streets of London that ends in St. James's Park, Roger discovers that Pongo likes Perdy. Her owner, Anita Cam... | psychedelic, comedy, cute, entertaining | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0060636 | Lord Love a Duck | In the psychiatric ward of a prison, Alan Musgrave, who calls himself "Mollymauk" after an extinct duck-like bird, tells his story into a tape recorder. Alan and Barbara Ann Greene are both senior transfer students at Los Angeles' new, ultra-modern Consolidated High School. Under Alan's hypnotic spell, Barbara Ann reve... | cult, comedy, satire, murder, romantic | train | imdb | null |
tt0464054 | House at the End of the Drive | When David King purchases a house in the hills far above the angst of Los Angeles, he gets much more than he bargained for when strange and unexplainable occurrences in and around the house begin to take control of his daily life. After he and his loyal dog Sebastian settle into the house, David begins to realize there... | paranormal, horror | train | imdb | Ridiculous.
I had the unlucky opportunity of seeing this very badly directed, badly written mess of a so-called movie.
Billed as "based on the real life experiences of Producer, David Oman," who lives on Cielo Drive, a few houses down from the former site of the "Sharon Tate/Helter Skelter" murder house(the original ho... |
tt0397535 | Memoirs of a Geisha | Chiyo Sakamoto (Suzuka Ohgo), a young girl from a poverty stricken fishing village, is sold along with her older sister Satsu (Samantha Futerman) into a life of servitude by her aging father. Chiyo is taken in by Mrs. Kayoko Nitta (Kaori Momoi), the Mother (proprietress) of a geisha house in Gion, one of the most promi... | dramatic, romantic, intrigue, cruelty, historical | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1315962 | Partir | There have been so many variations on D.H. Lawrences Lady Chatterley's Lover over the past eighty years that it has become almost a genre of its own. Few, however, have been as successful in elucidating Lawrence's theme of the psychic need to integrate mind and body into a single life force as Catherine Corsini's Leavi... | murder | train | imdb | null |
tt1037011 | Ben 10: Race Against Time | Taking place after the series, the story opens in Bellwood as a mysterious black figure appears and immediately starts destroying things. Ben Tennyson (Graham Phillips), in the form of Heatblast (voiced by David Franklin), confronts him. After a short battle, Ben seemingly obliterates the villain, which is strange cons... | prank | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0367093 | Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation | On an unnamed planet inhabited by the Arachnids, a squad of soldiers find themselves pinned down and surrounded on all sides by Arachnid forces. Even with their new laser gun technology and assistance from psychic soldiers, the Arachnid assault overwhelms them and General Jack Shepherd (Ed Lauter) decides to make a las... | violence, flashback | train | imdb | STARSHIP TROOPERS 2: HERO OF THE FEDERATION has a budget of a around $6 million so naturally the special effects in this one look like crap.
The horror elements are derivative of several much better movies, and generally don't work like they're supposed to, for various reasons(bad special effects,bad acting, bad camera... |
tt2334873 | Blue Jasmine | Jasmine Francis (Cate Blanchett) disembarks in San Francisco after a flight from New York City. She takes a taxi to her sister Ginger's (Sally Hawkins) apartment, where Ginger is dismayed to learn that Jasmine traveled first class despite claiming to be broke. Jasmine has recently suffered a nervous breakdown and, havi... | dark, depressing, flashback, melodrama, tragedy, entertaining, sentimental | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0398378 | Vampires: The Turning | Prologue: For many centuries, phi song neng (vampire spirits who have
vowed never to drink human blood) have lived among the villages of the Far
East. One day, over 800 years ago, a young, human warlord named Niran fell in
love with a beautiful song neng woman named Sang. Niran wanted Sang for his
own, so he killed her... | cult, violence | train | imdb | null |
tt1821681 | Touch | A preternatural drama in which science and spirituality intersect with the hopeful premise that we are all interconnected, tied in invisible ways to those
whose lives we are destined to alter and impact. Through masterful storytelling, the series follows a group of seemingly unrelated characters, beginning with a forme... | paranormal | train | imdb | null |
tt3063516 | Bad Grandpa | In the opening shot, an eight-year-old overweight boy, named Billy (Jackson Nicholl), is sitting in the waiting room of a law office. He reads a magazine and turns to a page with a picture of a guy fishing. Billy turns to the lady next to him and says he'd like to live in that spot next to the jail house since his mom ... | prank, stupid, humor, boring, flashback | train | imdb | Despite all its low brow humor and childish gags Bad Grandpa is by far one of the funniest and seriously ingenious comedies of the year and when watched with the right mindset will be a thoroughly enjoyable 90 minutes at the movies.Played by a worryingly good Johnny Knoxville Irving Zisman is the titular bad grandpa, a... |
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